I long for the days of Ink Stigmata. Just the sense of it currently existing. And the hobbits story. The hobbits story! And, you know, your Kurt Cobain Courtney Love shrine. And a list of all your handles nameses and the way they correlate in a map to your workses......
also, recall how you worshipped how kate bolin "ditched" dymphna for her "real" name, and why you have mary on your dreamwidth and where you mush together your online work with your physical, paying australian work, and how she and her knicker-raping wankers still cling to the facade of what they do with their fake online names and friends.
I'm really, really not sure what you're looking from me here. There are lots of old sites I used to maintain and don't anymore, and a lot of them have been lost to the vagaries of the internet -- I've been online since I was in my mid teens. Things get lost.
Pixie Meat (which actually still exists at http://maryborsellino.com/inkstigmata/fan/pixiemeat/) was created in 1998. I was *sixteen* in 1998. 'Ink Stigmata' as a site name, and sites like that one, were things which suited me when I was a teenager, but I've changed as I've grown up and my online presence and activities have changed too.
It's not like I don't own my earlier self and the stuff she made, I just haven't stayed in that same place. If something's not online it's because I've lost it when a site has gone down, not because I threw it away.
I'm sharpestrose or sharpest_rose as much as I am mary or mary borsellino online, so it's not like I've abandoned the use of handles, either?
As for 'mushing together' my various output channels, what it means to have an online identity is very different for a sixteen year old girl in 1998 who expresses her desire to be a writer by calling her site 'Ink Stigmata', to what it is for a thirty-one year old woman in 2013 who writes professionally under her own name and has a site primarily as a way of showcasing that work.
Since very early on I've always chosen to go by my real name online, and so I've always had a fairly singular online identity associated with my real name -- that's not something I shifted to in later years. It was always the case.
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Date: 2013-05-30 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-05-30 12:44 am (UTC)also, recall how you worshipped how kate bolin "ditched" dymphna for her "real" name, and why you have mary on your dreamwidth and where you mush together your online work with your physical, paying australian work, and how she and her knicker-raping wankers still cling to the facade of what they do with their fake online names and friends.
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Date: 2013-05-30 01:30 am (UTC)Pixie Meat (which actually still exists at http://maryborsellino.com/inkstigmata/fan/pixiemeat/) was created in 1998. I was *sixteen* in 1998. 'Ink Stigmata' as a site name, and sites like that one, were things which suited me when I was a teenager, but I've changed as I've grown up and my online presence and activities have changed too.
Pretty Good Year (the hobbits story) is linked from my books page here: http://maryborsellino.com/books.html
A lot of my other fic is linked to on ao3 from here: http://maryborsellino.com/writing.html
It's not like I don't own my earlier self and the stuff she made, I just haven't stayed in that same place. If something's not online it's because I've lost it when a site has gone down, not because I threw it away.
I'm sharpestrose or sharpest_rose as much as I am mary or mary borsellino online, so it's not like I've abandoned the use of handles, either?
As for 'mushing together' my various output channels, what it means to have an online identity is very different for a sixteen year old girl in 1998 who expresses her desire to be a writer by calling her site 'Ink Stigmata', to what it is for a thirty-one year old woman in 2013 who writes professionally under her own name and has a site primarily as a way of showcasing that work.
Since very early on I've always chosen to go by my real name online, and so I've always had a fairly singular online identity associated with my real name -- that's not something I shifted to in later years. It was always the case.
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Date: 2013-05-30 01:40 am (UTC)